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afgantrout	DrakeBob...another angling story...please?	#81	[url]	[-]
Posts: 571 06/03/2009 02:15	par exemple..."the newbie boo angler crouched..." You know what I mean, Man! # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Petri heil! Kindly take a look at my angling art (and classic ephemera) www.michaelsimonanglingart.com
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BlackHillsBill		#82	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2770 06/03/2009 09:27	DrakeBob wrote: It's a 000-weight, right? What Paul didn't tell you, Bob, being a modest man as befits a moderator in this organization, is that he is one of an elite few light-tackle experts in the U.S., a rare breed--a licensed grunion guide. In fact he holds the current world's record for grunion caught on a bamboo fly rod: just a tad shy of a hectogram. As you know, when the grunion heads toward the California beaches to spawn in the moonlight, as do several other species in that region, it is particularly vulnerable to a well-placed gnat. Paul, it seems, has been hired by the Lakers to sharpen Veli Hi Nao's finesse by introducing him to this peculiarly delicate form of fly fishing. So far, it has not gone too well. A pragmatist who has long had to fend for himself, Veli has concluded that one's catch improves if he merely stomps the grunion, although he agrees that a 000-weight is heaps of fun to wave. Paul therefore is supplementing Veli's training with some remedial ballet. It is said to be a stirring sight to watch them pirouette hand in hand at the edge of the sand by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon. The grunion have started coming out to stare. And Kobe is rumored to have cried. You nailed it again, Bob. Seventeen years is about right for him to be ready for the 000-weight Cortland 444. Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 06/03/2009 09:36. Edited 2 times.
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czkid	Cease and Desist!!!	#83	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4005 06/03/2009 10:04 Moderator	You boys are smoking some of those funny "cigarettes" again and that will not be tolerated on this forum!!! Cease this levity immediately. The Forum Nazi's
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Short Tip		#84	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1164 06/03/2009 10:41 Moderator	It's true that the experiment didn't work out so well for the grunion, but the ballet! Some things you'll remember forever. I've been working on leveraging this into a series for outdoor tv, "The Dinky Angler". We'll be travelling the world to fish "fine and close in", sight fishing for Great Lakes smelt, stalking the Appalachian mountain brooks for rosyside dace, and an attempt at the "Chesapeake Grand Slam" of silversides, killifish and finger mullet. I've even ordered a Ranger "Minnow Boat", a 6ft long metalflake fiberglass boat with a 100 HP Mercury. This will be used to inaugurate the "Fathead Classic", a highly competetive tournament with over $27.50 in prize money at stake. I'm telling you boys, when you hook a grunion on this tackle, it pulls like a 6" brook trout! Whoa! A few technical issues have popped up which you guys may be able to help with: Does it seem especially windy this spring? Everywhere we go, there seems to be a 5mph gale blowing which slows things down considerably. What is a reliable source for 15X tippet? Who can tie a decent size 36 Stimulator? Thanks in advance for your help.
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blacknosedace	What is "boo"?	#85	[url]	[-]
Posts: 68 06/03/2009 11:08	Short Tip, Please do not forget the hornyheads. We have been contemplating an international hornyhead tournament here in western Pennsylvania. There is a good deal of dissension among the committee members (as is typical in PA politics) but we have agreed that the winner will be determined by total number of "horns" counted over the duration of the tournament and that the grand prize will be honorary ownership of Breakneck Bridge over the Slippery Rock Crick until (and if) the tournament is held again.
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DrakeBob	...another angling story...	#86	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1339 06/03/2009 11:09 Formerly Drake	Ah, Michael... I wish I could just spout this stuff as, say, Cloozoe spouts Wordsworth or Horace Benbow recalls Faulkner, but I need a moment of inspiration. I'm sure I'll have one or two by the end of the day. Wait... wait... I think I feel one coming on... Our intrepid angler slowly crept up on the crystalline Bombay Sapphire flow on hands and knees, the newest stick in his arsenal clenched tightly in his teeth. It was a high end 000-weight 8' hollow-built quad that had been tweaked from a 7 1/2' Gillum taper by a well-known maker. Through that sixth sense he had developed from a day of nymphing without a bobb... uh.. indicator, he was alerted to the ticks that were crawling up his arms. (Besides, he was in Connecticut). "That DEET don't work worth a spit," he cursed. It was then that his sixth sense alerted him to the melting rod varnish that was flowing down his chin. Undaunted, he peered through the tall grass to observe the monstrous holdover brown that rolled tight up against the far bank. His breath quickened and he guessed it to be as long as his leg. Whispering to himself... "I've been waiting 17 years to stick a toad like that," he stripped out enough line and backing to reach the fish of his dreams and let fly a double haul curve cast that perfectly placed his perfectly tied offering ten feet above the leviathan. Overjoyed that his new 'boo felt just like 'phite, he thought... "Damn, I can't believe what I've been missing with these rods...." [hmmm... I feel a song coming on... ] Piscator Non Solum Piscatur Last Edited By: DrakeBob 06/03/2009 19:31. Edited 2 times.
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PaducahMichael		#87	[url]	[-]
Posts: 717 06/03/2009 11:25	DrakeBob wrote: Ah, Michael... I wish I could just spout this stuff as, say, Cloozoe spouts Wordsworth or Horace Benbow recalls Faulkner, but I need a moment of inspiration. I'm sure I'll have one or two by the end of the day. Wait... wait... I think I feel one coming on... Our intrepid angler slowly crept up on the crystalline Bombay Sapphire flow on hands and knees, the newest stick in his arsenal clenched tightly in his teeth. It was a high end 000-weight 8' hollow-built quad that had been tweaked from a 7 1/2' Gillum taper by a well-known maker. Through that sixth sense he had developed from a day of nymphing without a bobb... uh.. indicator, he was alerted to the ticks that were crawling up his arms. (Besides, he was in Connecticut). "That DEET don't work worth a spit," he cursed. It was then that his sixth sense alerted him to the melting rod varnish that was flowing down his chin. Undaunted, he peered through the tall grass to observe the monstrous holdover brown roll tight up against the far bank. His breath quickened and he guessed it to be as long as his leg. Whispering to himself... "I've been waiting 17 years to stick a toad like that," he stripped out enough line and backing to reach the fish of his dreams and let fly a double haul curve cast that perfectly placed his perfectly tied offering ten feet above the leviathan. Overjoyed that his new 'boo felt just like 'phite, he thought... "Damn, I can't believe what I've been missing with these rods...." [hmmm... I feel a song coming on... ] You do realize, of course, that your medication is NOT working properly. The New Divine Rods
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LFauntleroy	Oh, Nooooooooo!	#88	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4 06/03/2009 11:30	I don't want those VW boys back here again! I'm leaving!
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BlackHillsBill		#89	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2771 06/03/2009 11:43	Short Tip wrote: A few technical issues have popped up which you guys may be able to help with: Does it seem especially windy this spring? Everywhere we go, there seems to be a 5mph gale blowing which slows things down considerably. Thanks in advance for your help. No thanks necessary. It's what we do. It's true the wind rarely dies down around here. But may I recommend an inspirational tract written by my Great Uncle BlackHillsPaul, the renowned missionary to the Sioux Nation, whose scalp is on permanent display in the tourist tepee at Mt. Rushmore? It's entitled "Several Things a Man Ought Not Do Into the Wind" and covers many of the problems that are plaguing you. A great read, a sort of steeple cast for the sagging spirit.
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czkid		#90	[url]	[-]
Posts: 4007 06/03/2009 11:57 Moderator	:It appears as if we are going to have to banish this group of miscreants to sitting on Teddy R's spectacles at Mt. Rushmore for a week, without wifi. The first stint will be this summer... but if these inane "contributions" to the Forum continue we can of course reschedule that time period to the winter months. Remember.... we have ways to deal with you people....
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BlackHillsBill		#91	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2772 06/03/2009 12:23	Ah, Ralph, you know it would never work. We'd just keep coming back like a song. And anyway can you really imagine us sitting primly upon our fundaments on Teddy's glasses while being led in "Moonlight Sonata" by Short Tip? The only three experienced enough to take us for an occasional fishing break in Custer Park would be you, Flyman, and me. And that would be too much of a jolt to your sensibilities. Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 06/03/2009 12:29. Edited 1 time.
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zenflyfisher		#92	[url]	[-]
Posts: 33 06/03/2009 16:12	Can we change gin clear to as transparent as soviet vodka? The mountain stream tranparent as soviet vodka was full of nymphing brookies shadowed by the overhanging willows. Don't steal that now.
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fishnbanjo		#93	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6024 06/03/2009 16:40 the Canefather	It's not what is "boo", it's what are 'boo", and 'boo' are fly rods........... banjo Fly fishing is my Quisisana (the name is Italian for "place where one heals one's self.") "...... SLG Visit my website about Bamboo rods... Fishnbanjo's Place
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DrakeBob		#94	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1341 06/03/2009 16:51 Formerly Drake	Ralph, we're colorful but we're not crazy. And we're not going to sully the other 99 44/100 % of the forum. Well, at least I won't. I can't speak for these other virtually worthless bastards. Gentlemen, as keeper of the list I must remind you that "gin clear" is on the list of proscribed terms. If you'd like to add "transparent as soviet vodka" to the list, consider it done. Piscator Non Solum Piscatur Last Edited By: DrakeBob 06/03/2009 16:55. Edited 1 time.
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BlackHillsBill		#95	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2773 06/03/2009 18:34	Bob, did we rule out gimlet-eyed angler as being too derivative, even redundant--simply the result of spending too much time around gin-clear or vodka-transparent flows rather than a synonym for genuine sharp-sightedness? For my part, I much prefer pie-eyed fly flipper or even s__t-faced worm slinger as more memorably descriptive and accessible to almost any reader. But, as old VWBs were wont to say, that's just me. Can innocent observations like these about fishing diction result in a "Sullier of Forum" rating? Once, I remember, it got us quarantined in a separate section, all by ourselves. But our germs kept leaking out. We weren't so much isolated for possible redemption as we were "sent down" as forum equivalents of weighted wooly buggers. Sorry. Sometimes I'm overcome by fits of nostalgia. Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 06/03/2009 19:50. Edited 1 time.
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DrakeBob		#96	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1342 06/03/2009 19:27 Formerly Drake	I believe gimlet-eyed angler is on the list of proscribed terms, Bill, and if it isn't, it certainly should be. S__t-faced worm slinger is definitely redundant. At this rate, everything will be on the proscribed list and no one will be able to say anything. I'm sure the administration is relieved. I'll try to pull together the official list as a matter of record. Piscator Non Solum Piscatur
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quashnet	Walt Whitman explains it all for you	#97	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2591 06/03/2009 21:22 Moderatus Muscae	A child said, what is boo? fetching it to me with full hands; Be careful with those tips! I shouted, snatching the Leonard away from him. Boo is grass, and the best is a kind of grass known as Arundinaria amabilis. OK, said the child, so... what is the grass? How could I answer the child?... I do not know what it is any more than he.
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BlackHillsBill		#98	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2774 06/03/2009 23:04	But because it was a child who asked, Whitman continued to play the child's game, giving many answers all richly woven into one. He guessed, he said, the grass to be the flag of his disposition, the handkerchief of the Lord (a scented remembrancer designedly dropt), itself a child (the produced babe of vegetation), a uniform hieroglyphic, the beautiful uncut hair of graves. And finally, he made it the metaphor for his own faith: "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." He was right. Thanks, Quash. You're right, too. Plenty enough in Whitman by which to understand both nature and our own lives which it surrounds, and to keep faith while fishing with our curious grass rods.
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Ken M 44		#99	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3074 06/04/2009 06:52 Immoderatus Britannicus	This is what you need to get water as clear as vodka ...but it means throwing a bottle in Smirnoff Purification
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wb4tjh		#100	[url]	[-]
Posts: 504 06/05/2009 09:58	After reading all this, I'm beginning to see things a wee bit fuzzy arouind the edges.... Bill Anderson, Sarsota, Fl. "Bamboo is the Benchmark in flyrods".
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